Guest, Lyle, thanks for your *on-the-spot* reporting from Kansas. It was very interesting. Your advice re' "stealth" candidates for school boards and the like is of note. That is something that has been going on for about twenty years. We have a school board member here who has been tracking such activity, across the nation, for at least that long and has been a guest speaker on the subject. Sad to say she is not running for re-election this time. She is tired of fighting them.

Unfortunately, here at least, a lot of people agree with the Creationism teachings and want board members who agree, or, they are voting uninformed. We already have at least two members of that type and a new election coming up with at least one more identified as such. It is worse, as those who predominate have demanded and gotten an exclusive school, financed by the district and state, which allows them to teach in a very strict, old-fashioned way, along with stressing creationism. The way that they are funded, by the board, is out of all proportion to any other student body.

kat